Trying to calculate SMA of my custom variable

[NinjaTrader_ChelseaB]

Hello nleitman,

The SMA saved to mySMA2 should be producing a value of 5.

Are you doing further assignments on the vByM after it is set to 5?

I recommend that you create a new test script for testing and only add the one series and the one SMA indicator. (Reducing often finds the mistake in the code)

[nleitman]

The reason the first few values of SMA weren't 5 is because I exited the function right away when CurrentBar is 0 because of the above error. When I assign vByM immediately, I get the proper results:

vByM 5
mySMA2[0]5
vByM 5
mySMA2[0]5
vByM 5

[nleitman]

Hi Chelsea, I solved it. The calculation of vByM has maxvol - minvol in the denominator, and sometimes this is 0. It's 0 on the first iteration and can be 0 later on If those 2 values are identical. I added a check to prevent divide by 0 and now it's working as expected. Being able to use Print() was a big help, so thanks with that and your overall support.